Scots edit
Verb edit
- (transitive) Tae cause tae flowe in a stream, as a liquid or onything flowin lik a liquid, either oot o a veshel or intae it.
Noon edit
- (colloquial) A stream, or something lik a stream; especially a fluid o precipitation.
Inglis edit
Etymology edit
Frae Middle Inglis povre, povere, frae Old French (an Anglo-Norman) povre, poure (Modren French pauvre), frae Laitin pauper (Inglis pauper), frae Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), frae Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“smawness”). Cognate wi Old English fēawa (“little, few”). Displaced native Middle Inglis earm, arm (“poor”) (frae Old English earm; See arm), Middle Inglis wantsum, wantsome (“puir, needy”) (frae Old Norse vant (“deficiency, lack, want”), Middle Inglis unlede (“puir”) (frae Old English unlǣde, Middle Inglis unweli, unwely (“puir, unwalthy”) (frae Old English un- + weliġ (“well-tae-dae, prosperous, rich”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Australie) IPA(key): /poː/
- (Received Pronunciation)
- (US)
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: pour, pore (wi the pour-poor merger)
- Homophone: paw (in some non-rhotic accents) (wi the pour-poor merger)
Adjective edit
poor (comparative Wt/sco/poorer, superlative Wt/sco/poorest)
- puir in quality or walth
Limburgish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
poor m
Auld French edit
Noun edit
poor f (oblique plural Wt/sco/poors, nominative singular Wt/sco/poor, nominative plural Wt/sco/poors)